Excerpt from Past and Present of Greene County Missouri, Vol. 1: Early and Recent History and Genealogical Records of Many of the Representative Citizens Chapter IX - various divisions OF greene county History of Each Township - The Original Townships - Changes in the Civil Subdivisions - Population at Various Periods - Early Settlement of Each Township - History of Towns and Villages - Special History and Events. Chapter X - county growth and progress Miscellaneous Events Of Interest - Population by Decades - Population by Last Federal Census by Townships and Precincts First Events in the County - Market Quotations at Different Periods - The Rough Side of Life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from Past and Present of Greene County Missouri, Vol. 2: Early and Recent History and Genealogical Records of Many of the Representative Citizens All life and achievement is evolution; the wisdom of today comes from past experience, and present commercial prosperity is the result of former exertion and sacrifice. The deeds and motives of the men that have gone before have been instrumental in shaping the destinies of later communities and states. The development of a new country was at once a task and a privilege. It required great courage, privation and suffering. Compare the present conditions of the people of Greene county, Missouri, with what they were three - quarters of a century ago. From a trackless wilderness and a virgin prairie, less than a century ago, it has been transformed into a center of prosperity and advanced civilization, with millions of wealth, modern railroad facilities, great educational institutions, splendid industries, and immense agricultural productions. Can any thinking person be insensible to the fascination of the study which discloses the incentives, hopes, aspirations and efforts of the early pioneers who laid so firm a foundation upon which has been reared the magnificent prosperity of later days? To perpetuate the story of these people and'to trace and record the social, political, and industrial progress of the community from its first inception to the present time has been the function of our historians. A sincere purpose to preserve facts and personal memoirs that are deserving of perpetuation, and which unite the present with the past, . Is the motive for this publication. While the actual writing of most of the work was done by Clyde Edwin Tuck, the data was gathered by many trained assistants and the finished product ap proved by competent local authorities, to prevent possible errors, Jonathan Fairbanks being the principal editorial advisor, while special chapters were written by Edward M. Shepard and others well equipped to prepare such articles. A specially valuable department has been devoted to the sketches of representative citizens of this county whose records deserve perservation because of their worth and accomplishments. The publishers desire to ex tend their thanks to all who have aided in any way in making this under taking a success, and to express their gratitude for the uniform kindness with which the citizens of Greene county have regarded their efforts and for the many services rendered in obtaining necessary information. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
By: Western Historical Company, Pub. 1883, Reprinted 2018, 1010 pages, Index, Hard Cover, ISBN #0-89308-715-7. Located in the western portion of the Ozark region of the state, Greene County was created in 1833 from Crawford and Wayne Counties. Even though Missouri didn't become an official state until 1821, settlers began showing up in the western side around this time. Many of whom were from the Southern states such as: Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky. This book is a complete detailed history of the state, the county along the various towns of the time. Numerious individuals are mentioned with clues to their previous residents being discussed through out these various history sections. But the reader will delight in the biographical sketches of some 523 individuals of the county and genealogical data on some 2,000 other families / individuals. These persons were not only from VA, TN, NC, & KY but also had large numbers of settlers from OH, PA, IN, IL, & MO along with lesser quanties from the states of DE, GA, IA, MA, MD, ME, NJ, NY, VT, WI, & WV. The NEW INDEX for this reprint mentions over 3,000 entries.
